Ideas
What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution
How the left was made and unmade.
BySam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
ByHow Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us…
ByThe New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
ByBronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
ByEnter the Age of Malthus
The climate crisis, geopolitical disorder, and the rise of the “praetorian regime”.
ByThe case for an Atlantic Union
In a world of great-power rivalry, Europe and America need each other.
ByWhen finance and oil collide
Central banks are being pulled in opposing directions by energy inflation and market instability.
ByJGA Pocock’s days of rage
How the violent upheavals of Seventies America helped forge the greatest historian of our time.
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